Heart Protection

Name: Heart Protection
ISBN: 9787550016972

Jiu Lu FeixiangBaihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House2016

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Word count: 384K words
Chapters: 12
ISBN: 9787550016972

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Summary

Tian Yao, a thousand-year-old dragon demon, was once betrayed by the one he loved: Su Ying, sect leader of the Guanghan Gate, tore out his tendons and bones, gouged out his heart-protecting scale, and sealed the five elements across the four directions, leaving him shattered in body and spirit. Ten years ago his soul barely escaped the seal and sensed that his dragon bone lay sealed beneath a mountain lake. He possessed a boy who had died young and waited for a chance to recover his scattered body. Yan Hui, a disciple expelled from her sect who survives by taking bounty jobs, carries an unexplained heart-protecting scale over her heart and dragon blood in her veins, making her the key to breaking the seals. Tian Yao means to use her to recover his body, while Yan Hui wants only to escape this inscrutable dragon; yet as they are drawn again and again into conflicts between demons and humans, the righteous path and the demon clans, they become ever more entangled. The origin of the heart-protecting scale, the secret past between her master Ling Xiao and Su Ying, and the struggle for the dragon heart and horn bring one mystery after another to the surface. Built around the search for the lost body, the novel writes a xianxia world that is both light and heartbreaking, and amid banter and life-or-death choices keeps asking one question: is the human heart more treacherous than demons, and is a demon born to die? The book runs about 380,000 characters, was published in print by Baihuazhou Literature and Art Press in 2016, and was later adapted into a television series of the same name.

Editor's review

这是九鹭非香在《招摇》《苍兰诀》之外最能代表她风格的一部仙侠言情。她擅长把“虐”写得不苦大仇深——女主雁回是修仙十年却修不出仙风道骨的姑奶奶，嘴利心热、敢爱敢恨；男主天曜是被至爱肢解封印的妖龙，偏在遍体鳞伤之后仍愿意相信人。两个人的相处是斗嘴、算计、再拼死相护，笑点密集，疼点也扎实。以“寻回龙骨龙角、找回身体”为骨架，作者把仙妖对立、正道伪善、因果前缘一一铺开，让爱情之外还有一层关于善恶边界的追问。全书篇幅不长，节奏利落，适合一口气读完；读完再回头看电视剧，会更清楚原著里那份“为了遇见你”的温柔底色。

Who it's for

A good fit for

喜欢仙侠言情、偏爱欢喜冤家设定的读者
读过《苍兰诀》《招摇》《与凤行》，想补九鹭非香早期代表作的读者
看过同名电视剧，想读原著对照情节的观众
想找一部篇幅适中、几天能读完的轻松又带虐的国产玄幻小说的人

Not a good fit for

偏好严密世界观设定与硬核修仙体系的读者，本书重在情感与人物
不喜欢“误会推动剧情”、虐恋桥段的读者
希望看到大量战斗场面与升级打怪的读者

Reading tips

先看楔子和前几章，把天曜被肢解封印的因果记牢，后面谜团会清晰很多。
注意雁回心口护心鳞的线索，它是全书人物关系与身世的关键枢纽。
读的时候不妨留意作者对“正道”与“妖”的对照描写，这是本书除了爱情之外的第二层主题。
如果先看过电视剧，建议把剧里新增或改动的桥段暂时搁置，按原著节奏重读一遍。

About the publisher

Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House China · Founded in 1990

Baihuazhou Literature and Art Publishing House is a professional literature and art publisher. Judging from the books in the database, its publishing focus is on foreign literature, world classics, prose and miscellaneous writings, and classic works, while also covering literary appreciation and cultural reading. Representative titles include The Painter of Modern Life, Jane Eyre, Six Chapters of a Floating Life, The Moon and Sixpence, Selected Prose of Ji Xianlin, A Sportsman's Sketches, and Collected Prose of Famous Masters, involving Chinese and foreign authors such as Charles Baudelaire, Charlotte Brontë, Shen Fu, and W. Somerset Maugham, as well as translators including Guo Hong'an, Chen Jinhui, Jing Xing, and Jiao Haili. Overall, the press emphasizes the introduction of classic texts and the compilation of prose works, presenting a publishing profile centered on literary reading and cultural accumulation. As public information is limited, other aspects are not elaborated here.

Chapter 1: Danger While Exorcising Demons
Chapter 2: Night of the Full Moon
Chapter 3: Breaking the Formation in the Cave
Chapter 4: Golden Light of the Dragon Bone
Chapter 5: The Five Elements Seal
Chapter 6: A Life on the Line
Chapter 7: Fox Blood and Bewitching Fragrance
Chapter 8: Peril at Tianxiang
Chapter 9: Rescuing the Fox Demon
Chapter 10: Regaining the Dragon Horn
Chapter 11: Immortals and Demons Declare War
Chapter 12: Journey to Qingqiu

FAQ

《护心》有没有多个中文版本？

有。2016年6月百花洲文艺出版社出版过一版，ISBN 9787550016972，上下册共576页，豆瓣评分约7.4；2022年起四川文艺出版社推出新版，分《护心》上册（ISBN 9787541163685）与《护心·完结篇》下册（ISBN 9787541164538）。

这本书大概多少字，多久能读完？

原著约38.4万字，在仙侠网文里属于中等篇幅。阅读速度快的话两三天可以读完，正常节奏一周左右比较从容。

先看小说还是先看电视剧比较好？

建议先读小说。电视剧在中间部分对剧情有较大压缩与改编，人物与情节排序也有调整；先读原著能更完整地理解天曜与雁回的关系走向，再看剧不容易被误导。

这是不是系列书中的某一册？

不是。这是一部独立完结的长篇，2016年版以一套上下册的形式出版，2022年新版拆为上下两册分开发行，但故事本身完整，不隶属其他系列。

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About the author

Jiu Lu Feixiang Author · Chinese · 1992

Jiu Lu Feixiang, whose real name is Hong Wanling, was born in 1992 in Jiulongpo, Chongqing. She is a Chinese web novelist and a signed author on Jinjiang Literature City. In 2021 she joined the China Writers Association and serves as vice chair of the Chongqing Network Writers Association. Her work spans time-travel and alternate-world fantasy, modern romance, and youth literature. Representative titles include Cang Lan Jue, Yu Feng Xing, Hu Xin, Zhao Yao, and Si Ming. Her fiction is known for rich imagination and delicate emotional detail, building character relationships and dramatic conflict within xianxia and romance frameworks. Several works have been adapted into popular television dramas, such as Yu Jiao Ji, adapted as The Blue Whisper, and Yi Shi Chong Dong, Qi Shi Bu Xiang, adapted as Love You Seven Times. The library holds 22 of her works, including He Li and Liang Yuan: Wo He Yue Lao Shi Shi Dui Tou. Public information is limited, and this introduction is based only on known details.